This motherboard seems pretty expensive ($199 is the suggested retail). For about the same price, if you keep an eye out for good prices, you could get an AMD 780G chipset motherboard which has on-board 1080p HD-compatible graphics , an Athlon 64 X2 dual core 5400 (or thereabouts) processor, nice quiet low profile fan like a Scythe, and a couple of GB of memory. I have this type of setup and it handles all things up through 1080p quite nicely (cost me $224 shipped a couple of months ago, and I have a 5000, not a 5400 processor).
And how much power does your setup consume compared to the Popcorn hour ? I have setup a few media centers myself and nothing beats the smoothness and clarity of the Popcorn Hour products, and it consumes only about 10 watts...
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Ghoti @ Aug 15th 2008 1:03PM
This motherboard seems pretty expensive ($199 is the suggested retail). For about the same price, if you keep an eye out for good prices, you could get an AMD 780G chipset motherboard which has on-board 1080p HD-compatible graphics , an Athlon 64 X2 dual core 5400 (or thereabouts) processor, nice quiet low profile fan like a Scythe, and a couple of GB of memory. I have this type of setup and it handles all things up through 1080p quite nicely (cost me $224 shipped a couple of months ago, and I have a 5000, not a 5400 processor).
G3rt @ Oct 29th 2008 8:03AM
And how much power does your setup consume compared to the Popcorn hour ?
I have setup a few media centers myself and nothing beats the smoothness and clarity of the Popcorn Hour products, and it consumes only about 10 watts...